Peppino Gagliardi (25 May 1940 – 9 August 2023) was an Italian singer who was best known for his musical hits titled “Che Vuole Questa Musica Stasera” and “Come le Viole” which have been featured in many films and have remained popular in Italy.

Gagliardi achieved two-second placings at the Sanremo Music Festival: in 1972 with "Come le viole" and in 1973 with "Come un ragazzino".

One of his songs, "Che vuole questa musica stasera", is part of the original soundtrack of Scent of a Woman by Dino Risi, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The song was also used in an episode of Season 2 of the Belgian series Professor T. On 18 September 2010 Mayor Giuseppe Antonio Fuschino awarded Gagliardi honorary citizenship of the Municipality of Arzano, the city where his career began.

In 2012, Gagliardi returned with an experimental single in Neapolitan dialect, written and self-produced with Massimilliano Gagliardi titled “A ballata r’ettre scigne” On 16 March 2022, the 130th anniversary of the newspaper “Il mattino”, he (along with other Neapolitan artists) recorded a greeting video that was published onto the newspaper’s website.